1032 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
brown, nearly 5 mm. long, fully as broad; peduncle glabrous, 
usually solitary; secondary stalks divaricate, arising from 
above the middle, bearing 3 to 5 flowers; pedicels also 
glabrous, 1.5 mm. long; calyx turbinate, 2 mm. deep, as 
wide across the truncate or barely apiculate rim, very smooth; 
corolla 5 mm. long, tubular, glabrous except the woolly 
throat, divided to the middle into 5 oblong and _ obtusely 
pointed rather thick segments; stamens 5, alternating with 
the segments; filaments glabrous, 1.5 mm. long; anthers 
ellipsoid, 1 mm. long, retuse at both ends, basifixed; ovary 
disk round, quite prominent, glabrous; style short, glabrous, 
apparently 2 or 3, straight, forked; fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 12532, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
A tree climber of a very damp forested flat of alluvial 
soil at 750 feet; only a fragment of this was secured from 
the same tree upon which P. longipedunculata Elm. was dis- 
covered. As early as 1905 of the same month Mr. R. C. 
McGregor discovered it along the Baco river, Mindoro. 
CHASALIA Comm. 
Chasalia membranifolia (Bartl. Elm. n. comb. Psycho- 
tria membranifolia Bartl. in DC. Prod. IV; 522, 1830. 
Number 12314 Elmer from Sibuyan island is typical in 
shape and venation of leaves, short inflorescence, short and rather 
broad flowers of Bartling’s species which came from Sorsogon, 
Luzon. Rather widely distributed, but nowhere common. On 
my field label for the above number is the following note:— 
An undershrub of a forested ridge at 2000 feet; stem 1.5 m. 
high, 15 mm. thick, sparingly branched from below the mid- 
dle; wood rigid, yellowish white, quite brittle, without taste 
or odor; branches few, rigid, brown, smooth. - Leaves hori- 
zontal, flat, much darker green above, more or less recurv- 
ed, thinly coriaceous. Buds, flowers and fruits erect and 
flesh red, the latter are elongated and globose, the soft short 
stalks are of the some color, 
